Category Archives: Tools

Virtual Humanities Lab

Posted on 2006-03-21 by scaife

Geoff Rockwell notes the arrival of Vika Zafrin’s NEH-funded Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown, an interface for the display, annotation, and discussion of semantically encoded texts.

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iRex unveils its iLiad eBook reader

Posted on 2006-03-19 by scaife

Lots to like, including the name.

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False multiples in the TLG Canon

Posted on 2006-03-10 by scaife

The TLG Canon assigns two work numbers to the Lexicon of Hesychius, since it took the first half (4085.002) from Latte’s edition, the second half (4085.003) from that of Schmidt.  Same thing happens with the Geographia of Ptolemy (0363.009, 0363.014).  … Continue reading →

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Another tool for collaboration

Posted on 2006-03-09 by scaife

Google buys Writely, a browser-based word processor. Update: Ars Technica and The Register have more on this.

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On sending OA spatial data to Google Earth

Posted on 2006-02-16 by scaife

Declan Butler, Virtual globes: The web-wide world, Nature, February 15, 2006. Google Earth is becoming a platform for OA geospatial data. Butler explores how scientists are using GE and how –because GE is free, fun, and spectacular– this science is … Continue reading →

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Guide to Podcast Directories

Posted on 2006-02-14 by scaife

MediaShift offers a guided tour through the various major podcast directories.

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Getting going with Fedora

Posted on 2006-02-14 by Tom Elliott

Writing to the JISC-Repositories list, Richard Green (manager of the RepoMMan Project at the University of Hull) announces “an early draft of a project deliverable that describes [their] work getting going with Fedora”: D-D4 Iterative Development of Fedora materials. Sorry, … Continue reading →

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Useful review of OS software today

Posted on 2006-02-09 by scaife

Open-Source Users Break Free From Commercial Software

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Juxta

Posted on 2006-02-07 by scaife

Patacriticism has just released Juxta 1.0: Juxta is an open-source cross-platform tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. The software allows users to set any of the witnesses as the base text, to add or … Continue reading →

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Thesaurus Linguae Latinae CD Rom reviewed

Posted on 2006-02-06 by Gabriel Bodard

A review at Bryn Mawr Classical Review of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Third electronic edition, published by K. G. Saur. Peter Heslin at Durham has some interesting things to say about the value of this work and of such Greek … Continue reading →

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Fellowship for digital art students

Posted on 2006-02-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Linden Lab Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts For Creative Innovation in the Online World of Second Life This fellowship is made possible by Linden Lab®, the creators of Second Life®, to provide a young artist with a chance … Continue reading →

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Gentium Unicode font featured on newsforge

Posted on 2006-02-01 by Tom Elliott

My post this morning to classics-l about Bruce Byfield’s newsforge article (Gentium: An award-winning font joins the free software world ) has sparked an interesting and informative discussion. Gist@newsforge: Gentium’s creator, Victor Gaultney, has re-released the useful and attractive font … Continue reading →

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English-Greek Dictionary online at Chicago

Posted on 2006-01-05 by Gabriel Bodard

Rogueclassicism notes that the University of Chicago Library have put online a searchable version of Woodhouse’s English-Greek Dictionary. At first glance, it looks as though this–although it has a bit of a clunky search engine–will be a nice complement to … Continue reading →

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It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing

Posted on 2006-01-04 by scaife

This blog has now been upgraded to the WordPress 2.0 “Duke” release, named in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. No big changes on the surface, but nicer to work with behind the scenes.

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Abzu expanding

Posted on 2006-01-03 by chuckjones

I have begun to expand the scope of Abzu to include Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology in addition to the ancient Near East. Abzu is an index to open access material served from stable platforms. It covers material realting to the … Continue reading →

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